We are delighted to announce that Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen will be joining the Centre as a new Associate Professor in Culture, Media and Communication in April. From October 2013, Jo will be taking over from Dr Jonathan Vickery as director of the MA in Global Media and Communication (Jonathan is not leaving us but is developing some new research and teaching projects in the Centre). Jo is an experienced teacher, currently leading the MA in Media and Creative Enterprises at University of Gloucester. Her research draws on interests in media, memory, ageing and gender, with a particular focus on digital media and online creativity. Currently Joanne is working with colleagues in Brazil on the theory and practice of a social technology of media and memory. She is a co-researcher on the AHRC funded research network Women, Ageing and Media and co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories project. Recent publications include Save As... Digital Memories (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), Media and Memory(EUP 2011), Geography and Memory and Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet (Palgrave 2013).